Word: xavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture was originally called Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, after Isabel Scott Rorick's book, which has sold 25,000 copies. Audiences at sneak previews showed that the title meant nothing to them; many asked: "Where's Xavier...
...person they referred to was hawk-nosed Bandleader Xavier Cugat, who claims that he is the only Mr. Cugat in the U.S., and sued the publishers, Houghton Mifflin, for using his name. The publishers were sufficiently impressed with his claim to settle his suit out of court. Paramount, too, paid up promptly, then changed the picture's title...
Represented at the conference were the University of Chicago, Loyola, Northwestern, De Pauw, Lake Forest, St. Xavier, Rosary, Barat, North Park, Mundelein, National College of Education, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Central YMCA College...
...morning of Halloween, a grizzled old (73) French-Canadian prospector named Francois Xavier Gallant borrowed a friend's automobile, drove to Creighton (pop. 2,000), got busy with ax and compass. As the sun went down, he walked into the recorder's office, registered eight mining claims to 320 acres of land. Part of it was dotted with Creighton houses...
Rated No. 1 Catholic publication through its influence on teachers and clergymen, the Jesuit weekly America, edited by 52-year-old Francis Xavier Talbot, S.J. opposed the war and everything connected with it, including the draft. The Catholic World, a Paulist monthly edited by 64-year-old America-Firster Father James M. Gillis, is much more isolationist than America, though like almost every other isolationist Catholic publication it makes a distinction between national defense and intervention in World...